Shloka 67
Adhyāya 166: Kṛtaghna-doṣa (कृतघ्नदोषः) — the fault of ingratitude and the limits of expiation
द्वे तस्य त्रीणि वर्षाणि चत्वारि सहसेविनि । कुचर: पज्चवर्षाणि चरेद् भैक्ष्यं मुनिव्रत:
dve tasya trīṇi varṣāṇi catvāri sahasevini | kucaraḥ pañcavarṣāṇi cared bhaikṣyaṃ munivrataḥ ||
ビーシュマは言った。堕落したその男と二年、三年、あるいは四年にわたり交わった者は、牟尼のごとき誓戒を受け、同じ年数のあいだ托鉢により生を立てつつ地上を遍歴すべきである。だが五年にわたり交わった者は、同様に五年のあいだ托鉢の生活を行うべきである。
भीष्म उवाच
Educational Q&A
Association with serious wrongdoing is treated as ethically consequential; purification requires proportionate, time-bound austerity—living as a mendicant under a sage-like vow for as many years as the association lasted.
Bhīṣma, instructing the king in Śānti Parva on law and expiation, specifies a graded penance: those who remained in the company of a fallen man for 2–5 years must wander and subsist on alms for the corresponding duration, as part of restoring dharmic order.